Several political pundits and editorial pages across the Commonwealth used the recent statewide judicial election results to pronounce the “death” of legislative and political reform in Pennsylvania. Not only do I believe that reform’s death has been announced prematurely, but those of us committed can not allow it to be true.

Every election is, by definition, a referendum on reform in some way. But when the measure of the reform movement’s success is a bar that never should have been set – the defeat of even the most qualified statewide judicial candidate up for retention – it confuses what can only be described as an unworthy and unwise publicity stunt with true reform.  read more »